W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you said goodbye earlier, I wish there had been something more. It's too sharp of a turn. Endings are jarring. It doesn’t make any sense. 'Goodbyes' are the oldest thieves around. Because they steal all the credit of a moment. All the good out of a conversation. The lasting impression of goodbyes makes it seem as if no party ever cared to begin with. You know?”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“When you said no time for love,
I heard needy expression of love.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“When you said the media, the liberals are just being good bots and just doing what they're told.”
“When you said we were clandestine I didn’t realize you meant literally underground, you could have warned me.”
Source: The Remote Viewer
“When you said you love me, I knew love is repaid by love alone. So I'm passionately in love with you for it's the solace of my heart”
“When you said you loved me
I thought you meant you’d stay
I never expected it to end this way
So now I have to get through my day
Without you”
Source: Hey Humanity
“When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.”
“When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources. You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you don't leave a computer screen on... on land we take what we want”
“When you sailors see the haven before you, though you were mightily troubled before you could see any land, yet when you come near the shore and can see a certain land-mark, that contents you greatly. A godly man, in the midst of the waves and storms that he meets with, can see the glory of heaven before him and so contents himself. One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.”
Source: Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment
“When you save a girl, you save generations”
“When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.”
“When you save the life of a tree, you only pay your debt as we all owe our lives to the trees!”
“When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.”
“When you savor life with your senses, every moment feels rich and meaningful. Think about how satisfying it feels to inhale the fresh scent of mown grass or slowly run your hand across a velvet pillow. These sensations are physically pleasurable, but they also provide opportunities for you to sync with your internal wisdom to help you create your ideal life.”
Source: Sacred Sensual Living: 40 Words for Praying with All Your Senses
“When you saw a wounded who cry out for help,
you may be the one sent by God to bring a favor.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“When you saw different parts of the world, you saw different parts of yourself. And when you stayed home, where it was safe, those parts of yourself also stayed hidden.”
Source: Masterpiece
“When you saw me in the boxing ring fighting, it wasn't just so I could beat my opponent. My fighting had a purpose. I had to be successful in order to get people to listen to the things I had to say.”
Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey
“When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your guards. You didn't fear I was here to kill you. You looked over your shoulder to see what I was aiming at. That's the most loving gesture I think a man could receive from a woman. Unless you'd like to sit on my knee for a while.”
Source: A Memory of Light
“When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly person, Benjamin Button was, in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel and in the film starring Brad Pitt, he dies as a newborn child. Michael Jackson's childhood was one of enormous, prodigious production.He was a child prodigy, he was a wunderkind.”
“When you say "bank," a bank is a building, a set of computers and chairs and things. The bankers are the people running these banks. They're the chief officers, and they push the loans because they don't care if they go bad. For one thing, they may package these bad loans and sell them off to gullible institutional investors.”
“When you say "Ghetto Fights," that sounds extremely racist.”
“When you say "Holy Man", I immediately think of Eddie Murphy's finest hour. If it's anything comparable, I'm excited.”
“When you say "I am," the words that follow are summoning creation with a mighty force, because you are declaring it to be fact.”
Source: The Secret
“When you say "paying the banks," what they really mean is paying the bank bondholders. They are basically the One Percent.”
“When you say "Yes" to something, you include something you do want in your experience. When you say "No" to something, you include something you don't want in your experience.”
“When you say '90210,' everyone knows what you're talking about. So why not make use of that? And they certainly have. I think the show looks beautiful, and all the actors are doing a great job. It's a tangled web they've created thus far. It's great.”
“When you say 'Bedtime, bedtime, bedtime!' that's not what the child hears. What the child hears is 'Lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move... I'm locking the door now.'”
“When you say 'Black is beautiful' you are saying, 'Man you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being'.”
“When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.”
“When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.”
“When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.”
“When you say 'I love you', you are not just saying it to that person. You are saying 'I love you' to yourself, the planet & The Universe.”
“When you say 'I wrote a program that crashed Windows,' people just stare at you blankly and say 'Hey, I got those with the system, for free.'”
“When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your early years; there is whatever more human-scale version might have been possible to perceive later and maybe even befriend; and there is the internalized version of the parent with whom you struggle- to appease, to escape, to be yourself, to understand and be understood by- and they make up a chaotic and contradictory trinity.”
Source: The Faraway Nearby
“When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore feminist, but I think that one of the things that makes the society advanced is equality between men and women. If half of the society is oppressed by the other half, it's not fine.”
“When you say 'state' you mean 'national.' National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They've changed the name.”
“When you say 'Yes' or promise something, you can very easily deceive yourself and others also, as if you had already done what you promised. It is easy to think that by making a promise you have at least done part of what you promised to do, as if the promise itself were something of value. Not at all! In fact, when you do not do what you promise, it is a long way back to the truth.”
“When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.”
“When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.”
“When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?”
“When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each word.”
“When you say a right or wrong behavior is on a spectrum, you are simply trying to make excuses for bad behavior.”
Source: Distilled Thoughts
“When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.”
Source: All Things Are Possible Through Prayer: The Faith-Filled Guidebook That Can Change Your Life
“When you say a wall, you mean a wall. You want to build a fence, you say fence. You don't use it as a euphemism for a virtual, say surveillance from hot air balloons that are floating over the border which some people have advocated.”
“When you say black lives matter, that's inherently racist.”
“When you say cultural icon, I scrunch my nose.”
“When you say documentary, you have to have a sophisticated ear to receive that word. It should be documentary style, because documentary is police photography of a scene and a murder ... that's a real document. You see, art is really useless, and a document has use. And therefore, art is never a document, but it can adopt that style. I do it. I'm called a documentary photographer. But that presupposes a quite subtle knowledge of this distinction.”
Source: Walker Evans and Jane Ninas in New Orleans, 1935-1936
“When you say “Don’t judge”, you are judging those who judge. To say “Be Silent” to yourself, you have to break your silence. The thought of “being thoughtless” is there even when you are thoughtless.
Spiritual truths can’t be practiced at mind level. You have to discover something deeper than the mind which is already non-judgemental, silent and thoughtless, Jo”
“When you say fair, Samantha,” said Mr Green through a peculiar smile, “do you mean one of those travelling fleets of vehicles that arrive and set up things like spinning Waltzers and Big Wheels and all manner of machines that whizz people around in circles and up and down and from side to side? Machines that could...” Mr Green turned away and his unnatural smile became even more unsettling... “easily go wrong!”
Source: The Utterly Amazing BUMBLING-BOY VS. THE GREEN BOGEY: To bee or not to bee, that is the question
“When you say fear of the unknown, that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and its genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because were not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.”